abstract nowadays, cities and communities have been established in places where are exposed to different disasters or due to technological progress are exposed to man-made incidents. the view to disaster management and urban management has been changed from response and mitigation to resilience and bounce back. resilience is a new concept which was introduced by hollings (1979) in ecology. this...

AIM To describe nursing research that has been conducted to understand the phenomenon of resilience in nurses. BACKGROUND Resilience is the ability to bounce back or cope successfully despite adverse circumstances. Nurses deal with modern-day problems that affect their abilities to remain resilient. Nursing administrators/managers need to look for solutions not only to recruit nurses, but to ...

background: clinically frank thyroid nodules are common and believed to be present in 4% to 10% of the adult population in the united states. in the current literature, fine needle aspiration biopsies are considered to be the milestone of a model which helps the physician decide whether a certain thyroid nodule needs a surgical approach or not. a considerable fact is that sensitivity and specif...

a resilient soft liner (rsl) has been used in processed complete dentures but controlling its thickness has always been a challenge because of uneven reduction of the denture's intaglio surface. use of a thermoplastic vacuum-formed template and an endodontic k-file, as guides, for the reduction of a processed mandibular complete denture to receive rsl is described in the present report. a proce...

The final attenuation and twisting of fiber take place at ring spinning machine hence its optimized performance is very crucial in terms yarn quality. Drafting has a decisive effect on There exist many influencing parameters the geometry that have to be for manufacturing quality yarn. present research work was carried out develop Artificial neural networks (ANN) based prediction model polyester...

Classification of heart arrhythmia is an important step in developing devices for monitoring the health of individuals. This paper proposes a three module system for classification of electrocardiogram (ECG) beats. These modules are: denoising module, feature extraction module and a classification module. In the first module the stationary wavelet transform (SWF) is used for noise reduction of ...

Epidemic propagation on complex networks has been widely investigated, mostly with invariant parameters. However, the process of epidemic propagation is not always constant. Epidemics can be affected by various perturbations and may bounce back to its original state, which is considered resilient. Here, we study the resilience of epidemics on networks, by introducing a different infection rate ...

This paper proposes a hybrid crop classifier for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The feature sets consisted of span image, the H/A/α decomposition, and the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) based texture features. Then, the features were reduced by principle component analysis (PCA). Finally, a two-hidden-layer forward neural network (NN) was constructed and trained by ...

Natural outdoor scene classification is active and promising research area around the globe. In this study, the classification is carried out in two phases. In the first phase, the features are extracted from the images by wavelet decomposition method and stored in a database as feature vectors. In the second phase, the neural classifiers such as back-propagation neural network (BPNN) and resil...

As the demand for multilingual speaker recognizers increases, the development of systems which combine automatic speaker and gender identification, models becomes increasingly important. In this work a speaker and gender identification system is developed using multilingual speech signal as input. MFCCs and delta-MFCCs, LPC, LPCC , Formants ,ZCR are used to build modal for classification and to...